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One in five Indigenous Chamorros in the Northern Mariana Islands has diabetes, and the demand for dialysis is growing. But the only dialysis centers are on the capital island of Saipan.

After approval from the Food and Drug Administration and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the bivalent booster is “trickling” into Hawaii.

Advocates hope the guide will help clear up confusion over access to abortions in the islands — where it remains legal — after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

Patients who hadn’t sought health care in years flocked to clinics when a temporary pandemic program expanded Medicaid access to the commonwealth’s guest worker population.

Hawaii CARES, which receives local calls from the 988 lifeline, now faces the challenge of efficiently connecting callers with in-person crisis mobile outreach.

The initiative will include using social and print media campaigns in public and charter schools on the Big Island.

The Department of Health said it has received about 2,800 doses of the Jynneos vaccine and more than 1,000 doses have been administered.

Kidney failure afflicts Pacific Islanders at much higher rates, but for reasons that some say amount to discrimination, they don’t get transplants as often.

Gov. David Ige said the number of drug overdose deaths exceeded traffic fatalities in the islands this year.

Hawaii ranked in the lowest third nationwide for the educational and economic well-being of children in the 2022 Kids Count Data Book.